Anibal

Where Anibal comes from

Anibal hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1904
    Anibal José born
    Portuguese footballer
  2. 1909
    Anibal Escalante born
    Cuban communist and political organizer
  3. 1914
    First appearance
    #3,264 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1976
    Peak, #911
    83 babies named Anibal — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,263.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Anibal Escalante · Cuban communist and political organizer, 1909–1977
  • Anibal José · Portuguese footballer, 1904–1976
  • Anibal Barrow · Honduran journalist and news anchor, 1948–2013
  • Anibal Oswaldo Parada Najarro · football player, born 1984
  • Anibal dos Santos · Portuguese murderer, born 1971

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.